While it is impossible to manage the unpredictable impact of a natural disaster, improving infrastructure and internal systems at every level and using technology to monitor and provide services can
mitigate some of the physical, economic and personal toll.

This unwieldy dynamic of powerful tech companies binging on patents and then using them as combat artillery will have dire implications for enterprise. The patent wars are more about thwarting
competitors and less about fostering innovation.

The new Starbucks-Square mobile payments partnership is an opportunity for Twitter and Facebook to leverage their developing mobile ad platforms, geo-targeting features and itinerant user base into
transaction gold. The question is not if, but how soon?

News Corp.'s decision to throw its publishing operations under the bus in a division of assets is a shortsighted effort to pacify shareholders disgruntled with a year-long phone-hacking scandal and
declining stock price. It could blunt the newspapers' digital survival.

Dable remains an insular industry protecting its domain investment and guarding against releasing too much too fast-and usually only when pushed. In an age when disruptive elements come out of left
field, savvy and agile, no company or industry can afford to be tethered to rules of their own making or the government.

Absolutely! Thank you for your observation. There are so many moving parts to this economic disaster, recovery and transformation. The oversimplified treatment of it is misleading and dangerous. The good news is that once we make the effort to truly understand what is happening, there is a better chance of designing more constructive solutions and new business models better suited to the digital age.